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Show WORLDS FINEST VIEW FROM TOP OF LOOKOVT MOUNTAIN Tho view from tho summit of Lookout Look-out Mountain is ono of tho grandest In tho world. I do not know of any other that compares with It, although wo havo not been ablo to confirm tho interesting Information wo find In tho guide books that seven different states aro vlslblo to tho naked eye. Wo can seo Tcnncssco, of course, which is ono, and Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia, which aro four. Tho man who wroto the guide book was ablo to identify three moro states, but ho does not name them. It is posslblo, however, that his vision wns so superior to that of ordinary mon that It could tako in Now Jersoy, North Carolina and Texas In Its comprehensive sweep. However It is true, ns tho guide book soys, that "tho view from its lofty summit Is ono of cxcoptlonnl grandeur and ox-tent," ox-tent," nnd "no effort of tho Imagination Imagina-tion can picture tho magnlflccnco of tho grand panornmn outspread beforo one at this elevation." Tho summit of Lookout Mountain Is 2,300 feet above tho lovel ot tho sea, and tho hotel Is 1,700 foot nbovo tho city of Chattanooga. Tho situation Is similar to that of tho famous Sparrow ,11111s, overlooking Moscow, which experienced ex-perienced travelers declaro commands tho grandest spectaclo in all tho world, but tho altitudo of tho Sparrow Hills Is only about 700 foot abovo tho city, whllo that of Lookout Mountain Is threo times as groat. Tho Volga river winds around tho city of Moscow Tory much as tho Tonnessco river ombraccs Chattanooga, but In the former case tho habitations of 1,000,000 pcoplo, built of plcturesquo Orlcntnl architecture architec-ture and adorned with dazzling colors, form tho center of tho panorama, and If ono has tho patlcnco ho can count 650 gilded domes. Tho fortresses, tho palaces, and tho cathedrals of Moscow aro lacking horo, but Instead wo havo groups of gloomy looking factories, from which tall clouds of smoke arlso; bright strips of stool crossing each other at sharp angles show whero tho railways run; groups of homcllko cattages, surrounded surround-ed by gardens and shaded lawns, light up tho landscape, and beyond and surrounding sur-rounding them on tho north nro tho blue outlines of tho Cumberland mountains, moun-tains, to tho cast historic scenes of Missionary Ridge, with tho Great Smokies in tho background, and on tho western sldo tho lower peaks ot tho Raccoon mountains, whoro twilight twi-light always seems to dwell. William E. Curtis In tho Chicago Rocord-Hcr-I aid. |